Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 14:06 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Nicolas Deschildre: > But then, why not use this password feature by default to avoid anyone > to edit boot parameter and become root?
In addition to what was mentioned already: GRUB only knows about plain us keyboards, while many/most users probably have localised keyboard layouts, causing problems to enter password correctly. Even worse, some characters that they have on their keyboard, and thus could be used in a password, are simply unavailable for entering while in GRUB... -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
